Gray Shading Prints as Black to HP DeskJet 660c
Article ID: 157540
Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows 95
This article was previously published under Q157540
SYMPTOMS
When you print to a Hewlett Packard DeskJet 660c printer, cells shaded with
a gray fill color will print twice their expected intensity. A cell shaded
50% gray will print as a solid black color, 40% gray will print as 80%
gray, 25% gray will print as 50% gray.
NOTE: This problem does not occur on a computer running Microsoft Windows
NT.
WORKAROUND
This behavior can be corrected by performing either of the following:
- Shade another cell with a fill color other than gray.
- or -
- Draw an object on the worksheet and format that object with a fill
color other than gray.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
REFERENCES
For more information about shading cells, click the Index tab in Microsoft
Excel Help, type the following text
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Shade cells with
solid colors" topic.
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